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Paul's Case, An Essay

Mark McLaughlin
4/29/2008
“Paul's Case” An Essay

“Paul's Case” by Willa Cather, is a case of a suicide. Paul, the main character of this story, displayed many warning signs to the readers of his psychological state of mind, but did he show the typical warning signs of a suicide? He most diffidently did not. This is not a text book case of suicide and is rather shocking. The typical psychological warning signs of a suicide, taken from,
www.allexperts.com/psycology/suicid ,are acting withdrawn, reckless, abusing alcohol, suffering form a major loss, and verbal warnings. Of course, this is a generic list and Paul fits into most of this categories in some way or another, but he did not warns us verbally. On the contrary, in the story's dialog and in his thoughts, he makes us think he enjoys a certain way of life and deems everything else meaningless and dull. These makes the conclusion of this short story quite unexpected .
Paul always had an idea of the kind of......


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